ThenMoses and Aaronwent in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How longwill you be lifted up in yourpridebefore me? let my people go so thatthey may give me worship.

And the face of the earthwill be coveredwiththem, so that you will not be able to see the earth: and theywill be the destruction of everythingwhich up to now has not beendamaged, everythingwhich was not crushed by the ice-storm, and everytreestillliving in yourfields.

And yourhouseswill be full of them, and the houses of yourservants and of all the Egyptians; it will be worsethananythingyourfathershaveseen or theirfathers, from the day whentheywereliving on the earthtillthis day. And so he went out fromPharaoh.

And the Lordsaid to Moses, Let yourhand be stretched out over the land of Egypt so that the locusts may come up on the land for the destruction of everygreenplant in the land, eveneverythinguntouched by the ice-storm.

For all the face of the earth was coveredwiththem, so that the land was black; and everygreenplant and all the fruit of the treeswhich was untouched by the ice-stormtheytook for food: not one greenthing, no plant or tree, was to be seen in all the land of Egypt.